The Syntax of Chichewa
1st Edition
Published on 6. November 2006
978-0-511-22705-9 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive book provides a detailed description of the major syntactic structures of Chichewa. Assuming no prior knowledge of current theory, it covers topics such as relative clause and question formation, interactions between tone and syntactic structure, aspects of clause structure such as complementation, and phonetics and phonology. It also provides a detailed account of argument structure, in which the role of verbal suffixation is examined. Sam Mchombo's description is supplemented by observations about how the study of African languages, specifically Bantu languages, has contributed to progress in grammatical theory, including the debates that have raged within linguistic theory about the relationship between syntax and the lexicon, and the contributions of African linguistic structure to the evaluation of competing grammatical theories. Clearly organised and accessible, The Syntax of Chichewa will be an invaluable resource for students interested in linguistic theory and how it can be applied to a specific language.
Reviews / Votes
"The work captures the major syntactic structures of Chichewa while acknowledging the importance of the morphology of the Bantu verb and its argument structure. This work will be of interest to the student of Chichewa, the student of linguistics and the theoretical syntactician." The International Journal of African Historical Studies John P. Hutchinson, Boston UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cambridge University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Illustrations
1 Tables, unspecified; 8 Line drawings, unspecified
File size
0,96 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-511-22705-9 (9780511227059)
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Sam Mchombo
The Syntax of Chichewa
Book
10/2004
Cambridge University Press
€140.00
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Person
Sam Mchombo is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley.
Content
1. Introduction; 2. Phonetics and phonology; 3. Clause structure; 4. Relative clauses, clefts and question formation; 5. Argument structure and verb stem morphology; 6. Argument structure reducing suffixes; 7. The verb stem as a domain of linguistic processes.
